Hi everyone.
Its such a short month and this really snuck up on me. (Thanks Fiona for calling it out!)

Lets get some nominations for the March Group Read.
Here are the rules:

There will be two catagories for the novels to be voted in. (1)Regular fiction/non fiction or (2) Novels written by an IRISH author, or set in IRELAND.

Please nominate one book per person.
YOU MUST HAVE:
title and author
the catagory you are nominating it in

If your post does not have title, author or catagory, it will not be accepted.

It is not necessary to second or third someones nomination. If it is nominated, it will be placed in the voting polls.

I will leave the nomination thread open for 3 days. So we have until Thursday night to get our noms in.

Then, I will create two seperate polls in which we can place our votes.

Regular - Howls Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

I can't wait!

Ahem... Fiona, you forgot the catagory!
Tsk Tsk Tsk... help me set a good example for everyone else, wouldja?? (for shame!)

:P

Sorry, I did not read the instructions obviously!

All corrected now Ms Lori ma'am.

thank ya!

category 1: Memoirs of a Geisha by arthur golden

Cecelia Ahern - There's No Place Like Here (alternate title A Place Called Here) - Irish Author

Fiction: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

catagory 2: Ulysses by James Joyce

Category 2:In the Woods by Tana French

Category 1 - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

Category 2 - The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life - Flann O'Brien

Category 1- Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern

Category 2: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Category 1 - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Lori wrote: "Hi everyone.
Its such a short month and this really snuck up on me. (Thanks Fiona for calling it out!)

Lets get some nominations for the March Group Read.
Here are the rules:

There will b..."

Lori, I think it is great your choice to take an Irish author too!!!!!! I hope that gives a lot of new ideas and books that I don't know about yet as I am planning to also read many books by people written fromt he country I came to live in!

Oohhh... Flann Obrien... I have a hardcover that contains his complete works. Even if that doesnt make it as a group read, i plan on reading it myself!

...Don't hit me for this one.

In honor of Libba Bray's birthday, March 11...

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray-Category 1

Irish author: The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

(G)Emma, you're funny! :)

Cat 1: Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

Haha, thanks Karen.

(G)Emma wrote: "...Don't hit me for this one.

In honor of Libba Bray's birthday, March 11...

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray-Category 1"

Haven't we already read that? Sneak?!

No we have not! I've never nominated it!


I think.

*eyes Emma*

I know we've never read it, as a book club.

But I might've nominated it one time.

ONCE.

Lots of great nominations! Lots of books I want to read!

But tis in the Group Read discussion folder? Unless it wasn't an official group read.

Ms Pusher. Although if it did come up again I'd have to read it. ;)

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5929...

Ahh!

That was before we had the folder to discuss books that aren't group reads.


I'll fix that, thanks.

Ahhh, I seeeee. I shall stop eyeing you now.

Good!

I couldn't help myself, Libba's birthday is in March!

I see I shall have to campaign extra hard for Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

There must be some Irish references or Irish in Wynne's background you could use for campaiging purposes. Is there a green covered version? You can think of something.

Well, I think she's originally from Wales.

Lets recap so I dont loose any:

Cat1
Howls Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Eye Contact - Cammie McGovern
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn


Cat2
There's No Place Like Here - Cecelia Ahern
Ulysses - James Joyce
In the Woods - Tana French
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life - Flann O'Brien
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

category 1 - March - geraldine brooks

Yuck! Ulysses! Definitely won't be reading that. Emilee are you crazy? Ulysses is a sadistically boring book.

Category 2: Dubliners by James Joyce.

It's easier to read than Ulysses.

The category for Irish writers is great!
Cat 2. The Gathering by Anne Enright which won the Boker prize in 2007, i suppose...

Cat 1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Cat 2. Love, Rosie-Cecelia Ahern

Cat 2: Patrick by Stephen Lawhead

Cat 1: Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson

Cat 1 . Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf

Recap from yesterday:

Cat1
Howls Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Eye Contact - Cammie McGovern
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
March - geraldine brooks
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Astrid & Veronika - Linda Olsson
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf


Cat2
There's No Place Like Here - Cecelia Ahern
Ulysses - James Joyce
In the Woods - Tana French
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life - Flann O'Brien
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Love - Rosie Cecelia Ahern
Patrick - Stephen Lawhead

I dont usually nominate books for the Group Reads, however, I feel this is a book that should be added to the list. Take a look at it!


Catagory 2:The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson

Category 1: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, the same word magician who brought you The Book Thief!

I will definitely read I Am The Messenger if it wins!


Vote for A Great and Terrible Beauty!

*gives cookies, high fives and hugs*

I will give creamed cheese if you vote for Howls Moving Castle and cookies too.

I will give you cookies, and I will read ANY three books that you want me to read in the next six months, if you vote for AGATB!

I have already read two and will read many more if you vote for Howl in the following election. :)